Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 5

She sings strange slumber songs to the wee one, and the older children stand by her in the summer evenings and whisper little stories of Weenk and his warriors.

Who acts: mother, older children · What happens: sing, stand, whisper · To what, where: strange slumber songs, wee one, little stories

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, older children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sings	nsubj
2	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 songs	amod
4	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 songs	compound
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sings	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 one	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sings	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stand	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
13	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stand	nsubj
15	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sings	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stand	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 evenings	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evenings	det
20	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 evenings	compound
21	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stand	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whisper	cc
23	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	conj
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stories	amod
25	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 whisper	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Weenk	case
27	Weenk	Weenk	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 stories	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 warriors	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 warriors	nmod:poss
30	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Weenk	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	mother	strange slumber songs	the wee one			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to one=Recipient
2	stand	present	the older children			evening	by mother	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by she=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	present	the older children not said here	little stories of Weenk and Weenk's warriors				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 5